In accordance with its 2018 Annual Work Plan and within the framework of Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised the Statistics Course on ‘Infographics’ at Kuwait Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) on 27-28 March 2018.

The Statistics Course was conducted by Mr. Zulhan RUDYANSYAH, Head of Section Standardization and Publication Design in BPS-Statistics Indonesia, with the participation of 7 officials of the CSB of Kuwait.

As defined in the Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA Rev. 1 - October 2009; http://goo.gl/olg3Tz); dissemination and data warehousing cover policies, strategies, methods and techniques of data dissemination, design and organization of output databases and data warehouses, including feedback from users, communicating with the media, work of NSO press offices, data and metadata presentation, electronic dissemination (Internet), statistical portals.

The Statistics Course on ‘Infographics’ included discussion activities with a focus on the following topics:

• An understanding of infographics

            -    Interesting Data or Information
            -    Visually Appealing Story
            -    Easy to Understand Design

• Introduction of infographic software maker

            -    Adobe illustrator
            -    Adobe after effect
            -    Adobe edge animate

• Practice

Sign up for an account at OIC-StatCom Forum (http://forum.sesric.org/) to join the group discussion on the Statistics Course on ‘Infographics’ in Kuwait available at: http://forum.sesric.org/?p=30312

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